Chinese Government provides 100 million yuan in emergency food aid to Kenya

On August 15, 2011, when Premier Wen Jiabao met with visiting Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles, he announced that China would provide another 353.2 million yuan in aid to disaster-affected countries in Africa in addition to the 90 million yuan already committed in July to Kenya (see #73729), Ethiopia (see #1455), and Djibouti (#59621), totaling RMB 443.2 million in food aid to the disaster-stricken areas in the Horn of Africa (see "中国驻埃塞俄比亚大使顾小杰接受《中国日报》采访").

This additional aid included providing 100 million yuan to Kenya.

This project is recorded in the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Financial Tracking Service (see UNOCHA Flow ID: 87765).

On October 5, 2011, at Mombasa Port, Kenya, China's ambassador to Kenya, Liu Guangyuan, handed over the first two batches of grain to the Kenyan Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka as part of its 130 million CNY food aid after the regional famine (see Record ID#73729 for initial 30 million yuan aid). The aid includes rice, wheat, beans, maize flour, and cooking oil.

The first and second batches of the food aid totaled 2,500 tons of rice. The first batch had 500 tons of rice and arrived on September 28, 2011, the second batch arrived on October 1, 2011.

The third and fourth batches departed from China respectively on September 23 and 30, 2011, and were estimated to arrive in Mombasa before the end of October. The total value of the first four batches of grain is about 30 million yuan. The remaining 100 million yuan of grain was to be shipped from China soon after.